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Feed Grains Weekly: Price likely to keep stepping back

Expected to drop passed last year’s lows

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm August 29, 2025

As the harvest in southern Alberta presses on, a broker said that is one of the factors pulling feed prices lower in the region. Darcy Haley, vice-president of Ag Value Brokers in Lethbridge, added that lower cattle numbers in feedlots, plentiful amounts of grass for cattle to graze and a lacklustre export market also weighed on feed prices.

close up of calf in a corral, spring 2025. Photo: Janelle Rudolph

Cattleman’s Corner, Cow-Calf

Calf hormone implants can give environmental, financial wins

Bigger calves at weaning can cut emissions intensity and land use intensity and put more money in the pocket of cow-calf farmers

By Geralyn Wichers August 29, 2025

Hormone implants can lead to bigger calves — reducing greenhouse gas intensity, land use intensity and giving the beef farmer more profit, a Manitoba-based model suggests.

Carlos Mahr, cattle producer and President of the Chiapas Livestock Union Spray disinfectant on one of his cows as the Mexican government and ranchers struggle to control the spread of the flesh-eating screwworm, in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas state, Mexico July 3, 2025. Photo: Reuters/Daniel Becerril

Livestock, Reuters

Mexico reports 53 per cent increase in flesh-eating screwworm cases since July

U.S. border has been closed to Mexican cattle since July due to New World screwworm cases

By Cassandra Garrison, Heather Schlitz, Reuters August 28, 2025

Mexico has recorded 5,086 cases of flesh-eating screwworm in animals as of August 17, a 53 per cent jump from the number of cases reported in July, according to Mexican government data seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs rise

By Geralyn Wichers August 27, 2025

Chicago cattle and lean hog futures continued to climb on Wednesday.

Photo: FevziieRyeman/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. tariffs on Brazil will reshape global beef trade flows, analysts say

By Kylie Madry, Reuters, Roberto Samora August 27, 2025

Higher U.S. tariffs on Brazil are expected to reshape global beef trade flows, sparking increased shipments to the U.S. from countries like Mexico and Australia while Brazil seeks alternative markets, analysts said on Wednesday.

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Cattle regain losses, hogs rise

By Geralyn Wichers August 26, 2025

Chicago cattle futures rose on Tuesday, recouping losses from Monday's screwworm scare. Lean hog futures also rose.,.

Livestock, Reuters

U.S. cattle ranchers criticize government for delayed reporting of human screwworm case

Human screwworm case was Maryland resident who recovered, state health department says

By Leah Douglas, Reuters, Tom Polansek August 26, 2025

The patient with the first human infestation of travel-associated New World screwworm in the United States has recovered from the flesh-eating parasite, and there was no sign of transmission to other people or animals, the Maryland Department of Health said on Monday. Ranchers criticized a lack of transparency about the case.

Photo: Jacqueline Nix/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Feeder market makes another leg higher

By Jerry Klassen August 26, 2025

For the week ending August 23, Western Canadian feeder cattle markets traded $5 to $10 higher on average compared to seven days earlier. In some locations such as Lethbridge, larger packages of quality yearlings traded $10 to as much as $20/cwt higher.

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures slide on human screwworm case report

Lean hog futures rise

By Geralyn Wichers August 25, 2025

Chicago cattle futures fell on Monday after the USDA reported a human case of New World screwworm in the U.S.

Cattle at a feedlot near North Platte, Nebraska. (AndrewLinscott/iStock/Getty Images)

Livestock, Reuters

U.S. confirms nation’s first travel-associated human screwworm case connected to Central American outbreak

USDA criticized by cattle producers for failing to take timely measures to prevent screwworm from entering the U.S.

By Cassandra Garrison, Leah Douglas, Reuters, Tom Polansek August 25, 2025

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Sunday reported the first human case in the United States of travel-associated New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, from an outbreak-affected country.

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn fall on harvest pressure

U.S. livestock: Hog futures slide in technical correction

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: Acknowledging the past, seeking a better future

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U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn fall on harvest pressure

U.S. livestock: Hog futures slide in technical correction

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: Acknowledging the past, seeking a better future

Livestock

Feed Grains Weekly: Price likely to keep stepping back

Calf hormone implants can give environmental, financial wins

Mexico reports 53 per cent increase in flesh-eating screwworm cases since July

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs rise

U.S. tariffs on Brazil will reshape global beef trade flows, analysts say

U.S. livestock: Cattle regain losses, hogs rise

U.S. cattle ranchers criticize government for delayed reporting of human screwworm case

Klassen: Feeder market makes another leg higher

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures slide on human screwworm case report

U.S. confirms nation’s first travel-associated human screwworm case connected to Central American outbreak

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